From: Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>
To: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked+caml@naked.iki.fi>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Python's yield, Lisp's call-cc or C's setjmp/longjmp in OCaml
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:28:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312160828.02480.oleg_trott@columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87n09sucr9.fsf@naked.iki.fi>
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:13 am, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> I am wondering, does OCaml provide any variant of being able to
> bypass the normal function call and return discipline?
>
> More or less generic implementations of this can be seen in for
> example Python's yield instruction, Lisp's call-cc or call with
> current continuation, or C's setjmp/longjmp.
call/cc is Scheme, Common Lisp has "throw" instead, and ML has "raise".
> And if not, what are the chances of something like that seeing the
> light of day in the future? Are there any fundamental problems in
> OCaml that would make the implementation of such a thing exceedingly
> difficult?
>
> Just curiosity at this point.
--
Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-16 13:13 Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 13:28 ` Oleg Trott [this message]
2003-12-18 0:15 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 13:48 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-12-16 15:41 ` Kenneth Knowles
2003-12-16 16:45 ` Richard Jones
2003-12-16 18:36 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-12-16 18:42 ` Brian Hurt
2003-12-16 18:10 ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-17 6:30 ` ijtrotts
2003-12-17 8:13 ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-17 10:35 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-12-17 19:14 ` Pierre Weis
2003-12-17 19:32 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-12-17 20:04 ` David Brown
2003-12-18 1:14 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-12-18 5:31 ` David Brown
2003-12-18 7:05 ` Brian Hurt
2003-12-18 6:45 ` David Brown
2003-12-18 18:44 ` brogoff
2003-12-17 19:42 ` brogoff
2003-12-19 13:39 ` skaller
2003-12-18 0:51 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 18:06 Kevin S. Millikin
2003-12-18 22:08 Ker Lutyn
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